Blindsided By God Acts
9:8-12 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could
see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For
three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything. In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to
him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Yes,
Lord,” he answered. The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight
Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In
a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him
to restore his sight.” Greetings! BlogFam,
I do not know about you but I do not like to be blind-sided. Blindsided is to be attacked critically where
a person is vulnerable or uninformed, etc.
Saul was blindsided AND blind-sighted by God on the road to
Damascus. He was unexpectedly knocked
off of his path heading towards persecution and after his dramatic, yet brief
conversation with God on that road, he could not see. For three days, he was unable to physically see
anyone or anything. For three days, he
was completely vulnerable and at the mercy of those who had accompanied him. For three days, Saul gave his attention to
God as he probably never had before. And
at the end of those three days that Saul had been blindsided and blind-sighted
by God, Saul was able to see better than he ever had before. Saul
was blindsided on the road to Damascus but that moment changed his life
forever. Friends,
have you ever been blindsided by God? I
mean, have you ever had an experience that caught you totally off guard and
made you so unexpectedly or uncharacteristically vulnerable that you know
without a doubt that it was the Lord our God moving in your life as never
before? This is what happened to
Saul. Saul was not looking for an
encounter with God while he was talking smack about those who were following
The Way. Saul was not looking for a way
out of terrorizing believers in Jesus Christ.
Saul was not looking forward to being blinded by the One who has all power
to blind us and to help us to see. But
just because Saul did not see this coming, please know that our God did not
have a blind-spot when it came to seeing all that Saul had done and seeing in
his heart/mind what he was planning to do.
God had a better plan for Saul that undoubtedly included opening his
eyes and his heart to see God. And
just as God was blinding Saul, he was opening the eyes of Ananias to see Saul
with fresh eyes. God is amazing like
that! In spite of the ways we lived our
lives blinded to the light of God’s love and truth, God will remove the
blinders off of those who need to see us as God sees us and help us to more
clearly see the path of peace we should be focusing on. Both Ananias and Saul were blind-sided by God’s
will to help them both to see and to bring them together so that God’s plan
could be fulfilled in their lives. God
gave both of them visions to see one another spiritually in advance of their
seeing one another physically. So,
My Friends, on today, I pray that you would seek God to help you to see. And if you have been blindsided, do not be
discouraged, but look to the hills from whence cometh your help and God will
open your heart and your eyes to help you to see all that you need to see. Furthermore, the Lord just might open your
eyes to see others as God sees them through eyes of love, mercy, grace, and
forgiveness in spite of their past, in spite of what you have seen in their
lives prior to their “Damascus” experience.
I pray that you would be open to having vision spiritually so that you
can see beyond the physical and even emotional limitations we all see and that
can make us vulnerable. I pray that God
will connect you with others who seek and see God’s way for life together as
followers of Jesus Christ. God
loves You and I Do Too! Delesslyn FOLLOW
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